Where Are the Cries Against True Anti-Semitism?
Who was a major force behind it?
In 1538, he published a “Letter to the Sabbatarians” — a document which stated that Jews could not be the “people of God” because they had not accepted that the Messiah had already come.
The publication came the year after he had been asked to intervene by the prominent Jewish scholar Capito, against an edict that banished Jews from the land he lived in and even forbade them from passing through.
Instead, he did not assist the plight of the Jewish men and women of his time; he aided in ensuring atrocities were committed against them.
Within five years, he would publish an even worse condemnation of Judaism, entitled, “Against the Jews and Their Lies.”
He would advocate the complete banishment of Jewish men, women and children.
To ensure they would leave the land he lived in, he preached that their synagogues be burned, as well as their books, and by force, removed from the cities.
And Lord forgive us as we reiterate the very words he spoke while claiming to believe in You, but this evil mouth even had the audacity to call our God “this damned, crucified Jew.”
Who was this person?
It is none other, of course, than one Martin Luther, the so-called “great reformer”!
And where did Luther preach this idiocy?
In none other, of course, than a land by the name of Germany.
A land famous for the burning of synagogues.
The burning of books.
Is this not then the very roots of the nazi Holocaust?
Yet, a new motion picture glorifies the life this anti-Semite whose own words, pen, books, and actions prove his venomous hatred.
Yet, where is the cry against the film?
Where is the Anti-Defamation League?
Where are all those “scholars” who, like dogs, attacked a different film because of its literal interpretation of the Gospels?
The answer is they are nowhere.
They do not cry out for a simple reason.
It is not anti-Semitism they are against when they cry out against Mel Gibson’s yet-to-be-released film, The Passion.
That is just a disguise.
A disguise to hide their true hatred.
A hatred not toward a film, but a Life.
The Life of One Jesus Christ.
As we have said, this hatred, this public venom, is antichrist.
For it is the Lord and His Passion that the critics of The Passion cannot stand — not a film, nor Mel Gibson, nor Martin Luther.
It is their, once again, rejection — whether they call themselves “Catholic scholars” or members of the ADL —– of Christ.
Christ and His Suffering.
Christ and His Kingship.
It is the same rejection displayed by Martin Luther, for he, too, rejected a Suffering Messiah on a Cross in favor of an abandoned wooden beam.
He, too, rejected the Kingship of Christ by proclaiming his freedom from the Kingdom of Christ and setting up his own.
And the ADL does not cry out against the film Luther because, in reality, they are one and the same as Martin Luther, whose writings should be their mortal enemy.
Yet those who hate The Passion are the proverbial “strange bedfellows,” cut from the same cloth as Martin Luther.
A cloth in which mankind makes its own kingdom in rejection of its true King.
And that is why there was not and will be no protests, no asking for a “revision” of the script, no cries against the true anti-Semitism of Martin Luther by the ADL or other self-appointed “scholars.”
For Luther was only a man who led people away from the Kingdom of Christ, not into it.
In that reality, for these revisionists, there is no concern, no embattlement necessary: for the Truth in the Gospel of Christ is not in question.
For the Truth of the Gospel is not contained with the film, Luther.
It is contained within The Passion.
The Passion of the King they continue to reject.
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